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The World of Yesterday
By the author who inspired Wes Anderson’s 2014 film, The Grand Budapest HotelWritten as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday …
In the United States of Africa
In a literary reversal as deadly serious as it is wickedly satiric, this novel by the acclaimed French-speaking African writer Abdourahman A. Waberi turns the fortunes of the world …
Dream of Reason
A masterpiece of modernist fiction about one man’s search for meaning, Dream of Reason (La sinrazón) reveals Rosa Chacel as an intellectual and literary innovator whose work stands …
God's Mercy
When Hillevi, a young, inexperienced midwife, moves from the university town of Uppsala to the wilderness of Svartvattnet (Blackwater) to be with her unofficial fiancé, she is ill …
Martha Maxwell, Rocky Mountain Naturalist
"Martha Maxwell, Rocky Mountain Naturalist": "Highly enjoyable ...Maxwell, called a 'modern Diana' in the popular press of her day, devoted her life to taxidermy, which she thought …
Good Things
“Cooking something delicious is really much more satisfactory than painting pictures or making pottery. At least for most of us. Food has the tact to disappear, leaving room and …
The General and the Jaguar
On the cold, dark night of March 9, 1916, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa& el jaguar and his band of marauders crossed the border and raided the tiny town of Columbus, New …
Nobody's Horses
Descended from the greatest horses of the American West, the wild horses living on the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico were national treasures and living legends. But in …
Pretty–shield
'Little was known of the female contribution to the Crow Indians' brave survival against great odds until Pretty-shield, medicine woman of the Crows, consented to tell her story' - …
Tall Tales
Using a lively oral history format, Terry Pluto provides the best look yet at the glory days of the NBA. "Tall Tales' is essential reading for any fan who understands that the …
Disaster on the Spanish Main
Disaster on the Spanish Main unveils and illuminates an overlooked yet remarkable episode of European and American military history about a land-sea venture to seize control of the …